Last weekend at the İstanbul Boğaziçi Open, Uzair and his team partner Lisa (Maastricht) broke second and made it all the way to the final. They were also 6th and 8th best speaker of the tournament, respectively. Congratulations!

Our successes are not limited to Europe. At this year's Northeast Asian Open Debate Championships in Guangzhou, China, with 92 participating teams, Kenno (currently on an exchange programme in Hongkong) managed the Open Break as the 18th breaking team! Congratulations to Kenno and his team partner Omesh for this amazing achievement!

Munich was present with a large delegation of five teams and one judge at the Tilbury House Cologne Open this weekend, and we can happily report a successful performance: Florens and Ron made it to the final, while Miri and Yimin broke to semi-finals. Miri and Yimin were also 8th and 9th best speaker at the tournament, respectively. Congratulations!

We will once again offer a beginners programme at the start of the winter semester 2018/2019. The programme comprises a series of 7 introductory seminars every Wednesday at 6pm starting from 17 October 2018, followed by our club debates at 7pm (both in German and English). We will also have our annual novice tournament (the "Transrapid-Turnier") on 1 December.

The Munich delegation returns home today, after an amazing tournament and fun nights in the beautiful city of Prague. We can happily report that we represented our club well: Flo & Lisa broke to semi-finals, and Yimin & Beccy made it to the final. Individually Munich also came to some success: Beccy was 3rd best speaker, Yimin 4th, Calyxx 5th and Flo 7th. Congratulations!

After an incredibly successful year, the new board consisting of Yimin, Florens and Kenno was elected this week. We thank the previous board for their hard work and look forward to another successful year of debating.

We grow stronger every day! Congrats to Philipp and Calyxx for making us proud in the finals, Yimin and Uzair for breaking to semis, Maximilian and Marika for giving us an excellent novice final and Patricia for the judge break! Go Munich, and thanks Vienna! It was a blast!

The first two weeks of the semester will feature beginners workshops. After that, we will launch a training program consisting of casefile-based seminars and practical exercises. Here's some of what will await you in the coming months:

Rich and poor countries

How people think

Stock analysis practice

Minorities around the world

Money and monetary policy

and much more.

Workshops take place every Wednesday at 6pm in room 312. The exact dates of each workshop will be announced in the weekly newsletter.

We are extremely proud to announce that our team, consisting of Melda Eren and Philipp Mueller, broke second to esl outrounds at the WUDC in Mexico! They are the best team from the german-speaking region and both top ten esl speakers! Congratulations!

Congratulations to Gigi Gil and Devin van den Berg from Leiden for winning Munich Open 2017! As we look back at a great tournament (bigger and better even than last years Munich Open), we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our judges, and especially our fantastic helpers. You made the tournament happen; you are the best!

The Munich team, consisting of Melda Eren and Philipp Mueller, won the ESL final of the highly renowned Cambridge IV last weekend! We would like to highlight this phenomenal achievement! In addition, they are both top ten ESL speakers! Congratulations!

We'd like to invite anyone who's interested in what we do to our public debate! Eight of our most experienced members will debate a motion as they would at a tournament. The location is the great hall of the restaurant "Max E. Brauerei" at Adalbertstraße 33. We meet at 7, the debate will begin at about 7:30. ​

The upcoming weeks will feature our beginners seminars. Every Wednesday at 6pm, we'll meet in the KHG, Leopoldstraße 11, for a 1h seminar. After that, we'll have our debates. Anyone is free to join!In the beginning of December, we'll also host our annual novice tournament (the Trans-Rapid-Turnier) for the third time.

Both of the teams we sent to Split Open this year broke. Congrats to Yimin / Valerie for making it into the semifinal, and Melda / Vladi for making it to the final! You never fail to make Munich proud. ​

After a truly great year with Katharina, Chris and Joachim, our general assembly voted in a new board. Chris remains, becoming president, while Philipp rejoins and Florens joins the board. We look forward to a lovely and successful year of debating! ​

After another very successful weekend with five teams at the Vienna IV, we are proud to congratulate Munich SV (Sushmit and Valerie) on their break to semis and Munich PM (Philipp and Melda) on their break to finals! ​

​A proud weekend for Munich as three out of four teams we sent to the Helsinki Open (picture) and one of the two teams we sent to the Paris Open have made it into the outrounds! Congratulations to Melda and Suhail, Chris and Kathi, Calyxx and Philipp, and Florens and Samuel! ​

This years Erasmus Rotterdam Open was won by Monica Forman (Tel Aviv) and our own Melda Eren after they broke on legendary 15 points. Monica won the best speaker award as well. The final, which Monica and Melda won from OG, set to the motion "This House Regrets the dominance of the narrative of pushing yourself to your limits" also included Calyxx and Philipp from Munich. Congratulations to all Munich teams! ​

The Munich Debating Society is an international student debating society for students in and around Munich, Germany. We're open to anyone who is interested in debating, regardless of your current experience and skill level. ​